Casual Thai spot in Lincoln Square boasts an extensive menu at affordable prices.
Dine-In
Carry-Out/Delivery
Authentic Atmosphere
Opart Thai House Restaurant has been serving the Chicago area for many years. Providing the Chicago land area with great traditional Thai cuisine at three different locations. With an extensive menu of many different kinds of dishes. It will definitely entice your taste buds as you start out with Opart Thai's well-known appetizer dish, Tiger Cry. A skewered tender beef cooked to perfection served with homemade hot sauce.
You can accompany your appetizers with a selection of soups or salads. Then continue your meal with your choices of noodle dishes, rice dishes or the extensive entree, hot & spicy, seafood and Thai curry dishes. After you've had your fill with these great meals, finish off with a choice of exotic dessert.
In Short Three simple rooms look out at Western Avenue from this storefront Thai spot, where wood carvings and portraits of Thai royalty gaze down at the families and groups of 20-somethings enjoying enormous Thai platters below. Menu choices consist of more than 100 appetizers, soups, salads, noodle dishes, curries and seafood dishes. Loyalist favorites include the oversized crab rangoon starter and the created-for-customers Peanut Sauce Lover, which overflows with cashews, onion and hot peppers.
My husband and I have been dining there regularly or getting carry-out for the last 17 years. Great food though service rather "snobby", chilly to cold. Better to order out. Portions a tad small for the money. Good shu-mai, satay and Pad prik chicken. Very put-off by the service. I have to wonder how they keep an in-house clientelle at this rate...
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I've seen this place driving to work for months, and finally stopped. I got pad thai for carry out, and it was great! The noodles were the thin kind, though, so don't go expecting thick noodles like they offer at other stores. Still, it was very tasty, a good mix of seasonings, meat and veggies. Looked very upscale inside, nice place to go on a date or with friends.
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amazing food, HORRIBLE service
By mcelroyl
This place is in a location where you have PLENTY of thai places to choose from. Overall, I'd say this one has the best and most authentic food. Unfortunately, the service is TERRIBLE. The people who work there are for the most part unhelpful, and several are downright rude. It almost seems like they don't even care if you give them your business or not. My advice: don't miss out on the great food, but get it to go.
Pros: great food Cons: rude people
Posted 01/21/09
Long time patron of the joint.
By Citysearch User
My husband and I have been dining there regularly or getting carry-out for the last 17 years. Great food?????? though service rather snobby, chilly to cold. Better to order out. Portions a tad small for the money. Good shu-mai, satay and Pad prik chicken. Very put-off by the service. I have to wonder how they keep an in-house clientelle at this rate...
Posted 02/15/08
Good & Affordable Thai food
By vegitoboi
To me, there are very few places in Chicago that offer "good" Thai cuisine. Some places I've seen offer you a box of noodles or rice, throw in some meat and vegetables and sauce (along with a almost a half a cup of oil), and them calling it Thai food. It's NOT the case with this place. I've been going here since 98 when I was taking class from the "Martial Arts" school down the street and the "grandmaster" took us all to lunch as part of our "training" (notice the " " around the words; I don't consider them a "Martial Arts school" anymore, but that's another review). Anyway, since then I've always considered this place to be the standard for all Thai restaurants to follow. They just recently went through some remodeling and now the place looks better than before with new tabels and decor. The food though is still the same as I had it almost 9 years ago. Everything is good here, but I usually go for my favorites (chicken satay, spring roll, Tom Yum soup, Pad Thai, and/or beef Pad Si-ew). It is convient to get to as well being right at the Western brown line station and a metered parking lot accross the street. Don't let the exterior of the place fool you; once you step into the place, be ready to experience what Thai cuisine is all about.
Pros: Service, good Thai food, convient location, not too expensive, portions are "just enough" Cons: street parking, could use another expansion, exterior is misleading
Posted 10/28/07
HORRIBLE FOOD. HORRIBLE SERVICE>>>
By img101
Horrible food and if possible even worse service. This was not our first or second experience there ...
Pros: ambience Cons: service, food
Posted 03/26/07
Delicious Food, Small Portions
By pjs2780
We ordered carryout from Opart Thai House last night. The food (tofu satay, Pad Kra Praow Lard Khao with pork, and Pad Kratiam Prik Thai) were delicious, well seasoned and very flavorful. However, the entree portions were very small, the Pad Kratiam Prik Thai especially -- only about 10 shrimp in the whole container (the serving didn't even cover the bottom of the container!). And to charge extra for rice is just ridiculous. We also ordered Tom Kha Kai soup with tofu. It was flavorful, but missing the mushrooms that are a common and delicious addition to the soup; the tofu was also not very well flavored by the soup. We have been on a search for great Thai food in the city; this was by far the best we have been to so far, but still not superb. We'll keep looking. but might be back to Opart in the meantime.
Pros: well-seasoned food, extensive menu Cons: smallish portions, have to pay for rice?, no mushrooms in tom kha kai
